The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Astrue v. Capato on whether a child who was conceived after the death of a biological parent, but who cannot inherit personal...
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Over the past couple weeks, several people have asked why JURIST needs to raise funds. You can read all the details on these pages, but the most direct answer is that it all comes back to budget cuts....
Madoff trustee Irving Picard and the owners of the New York Mets on Monday reached a $162 million settlement for victims of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, avoiding a trial in the US District Court for...
Serbian General Ljubisa Dikovic on Monday brought a libel suit against the head of a Serbian human rights group that accused him of failing to prevent war crimes in 1998 and 1999 during the war...
A Swiss judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) resigned on Monday over a dispute with a Cambodian ECCC judge. International Co-Investigating Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet said that he...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in two capital cases. In Ryan v. Gonzales , the court will determine whether 18 USC § 3599(a)(2) , which provides that an indigent...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) failed to investigate the Libyan civilians killed by air strikes which assisted in the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi , Amnesty International (AI) reported [text, PDF;...
The US has sent at least 11 detainees to a facility in Afghanistan that has been shown to torture prisoners, two human rights groups reported Saturday. The Open Society Institute of New York and the Afghan Independent...
John Demjanjuk , a retired Ohio autoworker convicted of being an accessory to over 28,000 murders as a guard at a Nazi extermination camp, died in a nursing home Saturday at the age of 91. Demjanjuk, who...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Friday urged the Ukrainian government to ensure that former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko receive adequate medical treatment . Tymoshenko, who was convicted of abusing her...
